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This week we continue our exploration of the so called special relationship between the United States and Israel, a relationship that guarantees the continuing world power of this Apartheid state while it carries out its brutal military occupation of Palestinian land. In March of 2006, John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago, and Steven Walt of Harvard published their seminal book, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, revealing the machinations of the powerful Israeli Lobby....
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Jul 31, 2022
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Today we take another look at the fallout from the recent reports by international human rights organizations which have issued concurring exhaustive reports documenting that Israel indeed meets the protocols of apartheid under international law. The United States Congress and the White House have condemned the reports by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and B’Tselem without commentary as to why…without any critical analysis of the actual reports, but by putting down the reports...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Narrative, Apartheid, Paul O’Brien, Maha Nassar, Peter Beinart, Lara...
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Jul 24, 2022
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President Biden recently visited Israel, where he lavishly spoke of the “special relationship” between the US and Israel, and swore unwavering loyalty to that slavish Israel-USA bond. In response to Biden’s prostration before the Israeli Apartheid state, we offer historian Walter Hixson’s insightful analysis of that “special relationship” from our archive edition of This Week in Palestine, which we broadcast originally in January, 2022. [Sorry, but we are unable to reverse the...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Walter Hixson, special relationship, slavish, Israel-USA bond, Apartheid...
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Jul 17, 2022
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Nidal explains what his organization (1for3) has been doing every day, and the never-ending Israeli hassles it and its flock manage somehow to withstand. As Nidal explains, the Aida refugee camp is an Israeli construct. Palestinians, robbed of their longtime homes, were pushed into camps like this. It’s under military occupation and constant threat of Israeli violence. Seventy years in, Israel’s leaders continue to pound its victims with lethal violence and theft. For example,...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Nidal Al Azraq, 1for3, Aida Refugee Camp, Bethlehem, Israeli hassles,...
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Jul 10, 2022
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After many years of endeavors to get access to justice, Palestinian civil society and victims welcomed the UN ICC Prosecutor’s announcement that there was sufficient evidence proving the commission of war crimes in the territory of Palestine. However, seven years since the beginning of the preliminary investigation and more than a year after the opening of a supposedly full-fledged investigation, no concrete steps have been taken by the Court to put an end to the ‘impunity crisis’ in the...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, ICC, International Criminal Court, Triestin Mariniello, Raje Sourani,...
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Jul 3, 2022
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Today we revisit the struggle of pro-Palestinian activists in the United States who counter the well-funded attempts by the pro-Israel Lobby to silence criticism of Israel. We focus on the efforts of two organizations that provide legal resources to support the organizing efforts of pro Palestinian activists who resist efforts to silence them: The American Civil Liberties Union and Palestine Legal. In a forum at the Washington Press Club, the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs featured...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU, Palestine Legal, Middle East...
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Jun 26, 2022
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Journalist/author Hass insists that covering Palestine from Palestine is as necessary as covering Britain from London, and France from Paris. Her reports for the Israeli daily Ha’aretz, which she says "cannot be objective, just as any reporting about wrong-doing cannot be objective," have won her enemies in all camps. Forced by Hamas to leave Gaza earlier than planned, in 2008, she was detained in Israel twice for entering Gaza without a permit and staying in an "enemy...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Amira Hass, covering Palestine, Gaza, Ramallah, Ha'aretz, wrong-doing,...
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Jun 19, 2022
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Today we explore the crisis of Palestinian Leadership and the role that civil society plays in the resistance to the Israeli occupation, Featuring Ahmed Abu Artema (Palestinian writer and activist and the key architect of the March of Return in Gaza) and Marwa Fatafta (Policy Manager at Access Now). In this session we explored issues surrounding Palestinian civil society, and in particular human rights defenders and democracy activists, and the challenges and threats they face — including...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Ahmed Abu Artema, Marwa Fatafta, Palestinian civil society, civil...
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Jun 12, 2022
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Today we take another look at the influence of the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) on American elections and their role to squash any vestige of criticism of Israel. It is largely their role in pouring literally millions of dollars into political campaigns that creates enormous influence on candidates running for office. The message is clear. If you want our money and support, do not cross Israel!
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Peter Beinart, Waleed Shahid, Jeff Klein, Phil Weiss, AIPAC, American...
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Jun 5, 2022
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Levy is a respected award-winning Israeli journalist and author. In this address, he laments the hypocrisy of those who claim Israeli values relating to Ukraine -- versus those in Palestine. Israel claims to be "special" and therefore not bound by others' rules of war or human rights. So among the millions who are fleeing Ukraine, Israel welcomes only the Jewish. Others must pay a fee of $3000 and may stay only 30 days. So Israelis applaud the youth of Ukraine who throw so-called...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Gideon Levy, Ukraine, Molotov cocktails, hypocrisy, Truth and Justice...
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May 29, 2022
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Nancy has been to Palestine over 20 times, often leading delegations, and we have come to depend on her reporting and analysis of the facts on the ground. We recently sat down with Nancy and recorded this report-back and conversation.
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Nancy Murray, fact-finding, report-back, West Bank, Truth and Justice...
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May 22, 2022
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Israel's brazen assassination of Shireen Abu Akleh has shaken the Palestinian world. For 25 years she was on television in every Palestinian home reporting for Al Jazeera News Service from the hot spots of the Israeli occupation. Seemingly everyone knew Shireen; she was a trusted voice reporting the news day in and day out. Responding to her death, the popular Al Jazeera news program, The Stream, featured a forum on Shireen and her work. It reflected the love and admiration of Shireen’s...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Shireen Abu Akleh, Rashid Khalidi, brazen, Al Jazeera, The Stream, Truth...
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May 15, 2022
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The Pulitzer Prize winning author and civil rights icon, Alice Walker, of all people, has come under attack from the Zionist Lobby for being antisemitic because of her outspoken defense of the Palestinian People as they face Israeli Military occupation. This, of course, is the modus operandi of the Israeli Hasbara. To them, any criticism of Israel is per se antisemitic. But Alice Walker? How desperate do you have to be to attack a human rights warrior of such distinction? ... Today we feature a...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Jeff Mackler, Susan Abulhawa, Chris Hedges, Alice Walker, Zionist Lobby,...
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May 8, 2022
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Besides AIPAC, ADL, and their brethren, there is another powerful lobby that is pressing the Israeli Zionist narrative in American Society and that is the Christian Zionist movement. It has enormous numbers, and serious political clout. We do not pay enough attention to it. Today we feature Reverend Don Wagner, an openly recovering Christian Zionist, who will lead us through an historic analysis of Christian Zionism in a presentation he gave at the recent conference sponsored by the Washington...
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May 1, 2022
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This discussion was recorded in a podcast sponsored by Adalah and the American Friends Service Committee. It features an activist from each of the major sectors which divide the Palestinian people, Gaza, Israel which Palestinians often call Palestine 48, and of course the West Bank. The activists are Ahmed Abu Artema (Gaza), Sandra Tamari (Palestine '48), and Mariam Barghouti (West Bank). They are introduced and presented with questions by Adam Horowitz, an editor of the website Mondoweiss ....
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In the first segment we feature Palestinian activist Linda Sarsour and Black activist Marc Lamont Hill in an Al Jazeera recorded conversation on intersectionality,the linkage of the Palestinian rights movement with the movement for Black rights in the US. The second movement we focus on today is visibility of the Palestinian rights movement on US campuses today, in particular the development of the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) movement which has initiated immense pushback from...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Intersectionality, Linda Sarsour, Marc La mont Hill, visibility, Students...
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Apr 17, 2022
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Today we explore issues related to Israeli policies in Jerusalem, including ongoing displacement of Palestinian residents and expansion of Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem, why Jerusalem continues to serve as a catalyst for Palestinian protest (and harsh Israeli violence in response), and how Jerusalem continues to be at the heart of Palestinian and Israeli national aspirations. We will hear portions of a webinar titled “Whose Jerusalem?” featuring: Daniel Seidemann from Terrestrial...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Daniel Seidemann, Dana El Kurd, Munir Nuseibah, Khaled Elgindy, Lara...
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Apr 10, 2022
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We begin this morning with a CNN interview with Palestinian attorney and Rutgers University Professor Noura Erakat. It is a couple of months old, but we play it to offer an example of the American media’s prejudicial approach to discussing the Palestinian struggle. The questions thrown at Noura imply that this is a symmetrical struggle between equals rather than a military occupation of a colonized people. But Noura brilliantly turns the interview into a projection of the Palestinian...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, CNN, Noura Erakat, Hamas rockets, right to resist, occupation, Edward...
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Apr 3, 2022
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A major problem for pro-Palestinian activists is getting the Palestinian narrative, the Palestinian factual history, the Palestinian truth, or the Palestinian analysis, into the mainstream media, which is currently dominated by the revisionist Israeli narrative fueled by the multimillion dollar Israeli Lobby. This week we take the current temperature of US media on presenting Palestinian visibility, the Palestinian case for liberation, and the projection of the Palestinian voice into the...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Sut Jhally, Palestinian narrataive, Occupation of the American Mind,...
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Mar 27, 2022
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Hass insists that covering Palestine from Palestine is as necessary as covering Britain from London, and France from Paris. Her reports for the Israeli daily Ha’aretz, which she says "cannot be objective, just as any reporting about wrong-doing cannot be objective," have won her enemies in all camps. Forced by Hamas to leave Gaza earlier than planned, in 2008, she was detained in Israel twice for entering Gaza without a permit and staying in an "enemy entity."
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Amira Hass, covering Palestine, Gaza, Ramallah, Ha'aretz, wrong-doing,...
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Mar 20, 2022
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We hear Hanan Ashwari, the first woman elected to the PLO governing council, who also served as its spokesperson for several years. She also has served in the Palestinian parliament. Here she is delivering a keynote address to the annual conference of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. Before that, we discuss the Jewish establishment's knee jerk attack on Amnesty International's Apartheid report.They use language right out of the Israeli Hasbara talking points catalogue. They parrot...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Hanan Ashwari, Apartheid, Amnesty International, Palestinian icon,...
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Mar 13, 2022
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Levy is a respected award-winning Israeli journalist and author. In this address, he laments the hypocrisy of those who claim Israeli values relating to Ukraine -- versus those in Palestine. Israel claims to be "special" and therefore not bound by others' rules of war or human rights. So among the millions who are fleeing Ukraine, Israel welcomes only the Jewish. Others must pay a fee of $3000 and may stay only 30 days. So Israelis applaud the youth of Ukraine who throw so-called...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Gideon Levy, Ukraine, Molotov cocktails, hypocrisy, Truth and Justice...
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Mar 6, 2022
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Sponsored by the Foundation for Middle East Peace. Its President, Lara Friedman, moderates a conversation between Inès Abdel Razek and Munir Nusseibeh about developments in Jerusalem and their broader context and implications. Inès is the Advocacy Director for the Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy (PIPD). Munir is a human rights lawyer and academic based in Al-Quds University in Jerusalem.
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Lara Friedman, Ines Abdel Razek, Munir Nusseibeh, PIPD, FMEP, Middle East...
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Feb 27, 2022
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Today we go on a journey with Alison Glick, who as a young American Jewish girl went on an organized trip to Israel as a teenager. We let Alison tell the story which she has published in her new fictional novel. It's based on the several years she lived in Palestine. The book, The Other End of the Sea, portrays the agony of the discovery of shattered myths, and the story of self-discovery through a turbulent romance in an apartheid society.
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Alison Glick, The Other End of the Sea, Palestine, apartheid society,...
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Feb 20, 2022
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Palestinians call this region Al-Naqab. The population of this vast area consists of over 200,000 historically nomadic Bedouins, just over half of which are crammed into the seven government-built Bedouin-only towns; the remaining 90,000 live in 46 villages – 35 of which are still unrecognized by the Israeli government which controls the entire area. We Hear from Palestinians confronting Jewish National Fund (JNF) terror and Zionist colonialism to save Al-Naqab. Speakers Raafat Abu Aish and...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Al-Naqab, Raafat Abu Aish, Laila Alsana, Jewish National Fund, Zionist...
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Feb 13, 2022
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Today we take a long critical look at the history and role of the Palestinian Authority (PA) as a militarized security agency working in collaboration with Israel to enforce the occupation and colonization of Palestine. Professor Joseph Massad, who has done extensive research on the PA, addresses the issue in an Electronic Intifada Podcast. Massad teaches modern Arab politics and intellectual history at Columbia University in New York. He is the author of several books, including Desiring Arabs...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Joseph Massad, PA, Palestinian Authority, collaborator, PLO, Electronic...
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Feb 6, 2022
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We have been hearing more and more lately about the so-called shifting Palestinian narrative. Today, three speakers from the Palestinian human rights organization, Al-Shabaka, explore the depth and breadth of the process and the meaning of the shifting narrative in the era of Intersectionality.
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Al-Shabaka, Nadim Pawalsa, Tareq Baconi, Yara Hawari, shifting narrative,...
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Jan 30, 2022
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As is so evident, Israel has a very special relationship to the US, unparalleled by any other country. We pour more foreign aid to Israel than any other country, largely for weapons built in the US, even though Israel’s largest exports are military and police weapons. They do not lack for money. They have the fifth largest GDP in the world. So why do we give these resources that they really do not need when resources are needed is so many other places? That is the question explored today by...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Walter Hixson, special relationship, Israel owns, White House, Congress,...
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Jan 23, 2022
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Miko Peled is not Palestinian; in fact, he is a culturally Jewish Israeli. His family’s heritage is European, and includes a grandfather who was a signer of the Israeli Declaration of Independence in May 1948 and a father who was a prominent general in the Israeli Army in the 1960s-1970s. But Miko Peled has become a staunch advocate for Palestinian rights, and a fierce critic of apartheid Israel. One of his books is Injustice: The Story of the Holy Land Foundation Five (Just World Books,...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Miko Peled, one democratic state, Palestinian rights, Truth and Justice...
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Jan 16, 2022
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For many of us, reviewing 2021 is a painful process. For Palestinians review of every year is a painful process, and 2021 was no exception, but that is exactly what we will do this morning on This Week In Palestine, review 2021 through the Palestinian narrative. In today's feature presentation, The Foundation for Middle East Peace's President Lara Friedman hosts Palestinian organizer and activist Fadi Quran and journalist and Professor Peter Beinart for a wide-ranging conversation about 2021's...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, FMEP, Foundation for Middle East Peace, Laura Friedman, Fadi Quran, Peter...
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Jan 9, 2022
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Our feature presentation is an interview of Israeli historian, Ilan Pappe, by British journalist Peter Bolton on the Canary Channel in the United Kingdom. (UK’s Canary has nothing whatever to do with The Israeli Lobby’s Canary Mission Black List. The Canary is a left-leaning UK-based online publication and is generally critical of Israel and is pro-Palestinian in its coverage.) Among the issues thoroughly discussed: why Pappe’s “one democratic state” is right and achievable,...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Ilan Pappe, Peter Bolton, Canary Channel, one democratic state, two-state...
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Jan 2, 2022
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The culture of lies and deceit runs so deep in our society that truth is losing its cleansing qualities. If lying suits the narrative to move your agenda, that is just fine, in America and Israel. So now, Israel claims that despite the fact that they have infiltrated six of Palestine’s human rights organizations with sophisticated surveillance equipment and therefore know exactly what is going on within these agencies, Israel claims they are "terrorist" organizations. The evidence...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Susan Power, Al Haq, terrorist, lying, human rights, Truth and Justice...
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Dec 26, 2021
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Hixson’s forthcoming book is Architects of Repression: How Israel and its Lobby Put Racism, Violence and Injustice at the Center of US Middle East Policy (published by the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, 2021). It follows up on a previous study entitled Israel’s Armor:The Israel Lobby and the First Generation of the Palestine Conflict (Cambridge University Press, 2019). These richly researched studies have established Hixson as a leading expert on the Israel lobby. Professor...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Walter Hixson, Grant Smith, Architects of Repression, Washington Report,...
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Dec 19, 2021
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Today we examine Christian Zionist influence on the development of US policies concerning Israel/Palestine. Christian Zionists form a dominant portion of the so-called Christian Right. They are a major player in the Evangelical Movement, and a power player in the well-organized pro Israeli Lobby in the United States. 40% of the current Republican Party identify as Evangelicals…40%. So when we think about the base of the pro Israeli movement in the US we cannot think it is just Jews, it also...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Christian Zionist, influence, policies, Christian Right, Evangelical...
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Dec 12, 2021
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Jews go about their lives in a single, contiguous space where they enjoy full rights and self-determination. In contrast, Palestinians live in a space that is fragmented into several units, each with a different set of rights – given or denied by Israel, but always inferior to the rights accorded to Jews. Last week, we featured a forum on the B’Tselem report, which took place in Cork, Ireland. It was moderated by the Chair of the Cork County anti Apartheid Campaign, Martin Shield, and...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, B'Tselem, apartheid state, anti-apartheid campaign, Cork Ireland, Martin...
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Dec 5, 2021
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The Israeli human rights group, B’Tselem, conducted an investigation and issued a report documenting that Israeli is an apartheid state by international legal standards. This lies at the base of a wide array of Israeli policies, advancing and perpetuating the supremacy of one group – Jews – over another – Palestinians. Our feature this week is a forum on this courageous report, which took place in Cork, Ireland. It is moderated by the Chair of the Cork County anti-Apartheid Campaign,...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, B'Tselem, apartheid state, anti-apartheid campaign, Cork Ireland, Martin...
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Nov 28, 2021
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We feature Reem Hammad, speaking virtually from the besieged Sheik Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem, and Dr Mona El Farra, a physician speaking from her home in Gaza. Each one gives an on-the-ground report about the struggles to resist the Israeli occupation in her particular neighborhood. The recordings were originally made for the annual conference of the Jerusalem Fund and Palestine Center in Washington.
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Reem Hammad, Sheik Jarrah, Mona El farra, Gaza, struggles to resist,...
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Our feature presentation is Cornel West, giving the keynote speech at the opening session of the Annual Conference of the Jerusalem Fund and Palestine Center in Washington, DC. We include some Q&A. West is a professor, author and scholar who currently teaches at Union Theological Seminary in NYC. He previously taught at Yale, Harvard, and University of Paris. He is also a human rights activist who can be found demonstrating on the streets as well as teaching in the classroom. His major...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Cornel West, Jerusalem Fund, Palestine Center, Union Theological...
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Nov 14, 2021
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In late October, the Israeli government declared six Palestinian human rights groups to be “terror organizations” – a designation that criminalizes their work under Israeli law and enables Israel to seize assets, arrest staff, prohibit funding, and punish public expressions of support and solidarity. With this terror designation, the Israeli government has escalated its longtime efforts to crush Palestinian organizations that document Israel’s ongoing violations of Palestinian human...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, call them terrorists, targeted NGOs, Jamil Dakwar, ACLU, Rabea Eghbariah,...
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Nov 7, 2021
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The magnitude of US support, in light of the wealth of Israel, is obscene, and of course tragic for Palestine, which is the main victim of this huge military, the fifth largest in the world. Add to that the fact that Israel is the largest per capita importer and exporter of military hardware on the planet, you have to ask why. Why does the US send 3.8 billion dollars of military aid a year to a major manufacturer and distributor of arms to the international community? Why are US police being...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Susan Abulhawa, Israel, military hardware, 3.8 billion dollars, Edward...
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Oct 31, 2021
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This week we continue our reporting on the machinations that took place within the Democratic Party over the recent vote to send Israel an additional one billion dollars for their military Iron Dome project. The US already sends Israel 3.8 billion dollars a year for weapons that they then must purchase from the United States, a very cozy arrangement. In a Mondoweiss podcast, this decision making process within the Democratic Party is dissected by Jewish Voice for Peace’s Washington...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Beth Miller, Jewish Voice for Peace, Iron Dome, Mondoweiss, Truth and...
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Oct 24, 2021
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Today we talk with Palestinian story-teller Mona Hajjar Halaby. Though she currently lives in Berkeley, California, she writes of her ties to Palestine through the memories of her mother, and her frequent trips to Palestine over many years. Her recently published book: In My Mother's Footsteps: A Palestinian Refugee Returns Home. From the description at shoppalestine.org: ‘Refugees are like seeds that scatter in the wind, and land in different soils that become their reluctant homes’...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Mona Halaby, storyteller, Mother's footsteps, Palestinian refugee, Truth...
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Oct 17, 2021
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Phil Weiss of Mondoweiss has written a troubling article documenting the power of the Jewish community in using its funding to control members of congress concerning their votes on of the flow of money to support Israel. Recent events give illustration to this phenomenon. We quote from that article. Next, our feature presentation this week is a speech by journalist Ian Williams, delivered at a forum sponsored by the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. It picks up on our examination of the...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Phil Weiss, Ian Williams, Washington Report, Middle East Affairs, flow of...
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Oct 10, 2021
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There's a shift within the last few years in the way that the Palestinian narrative is discussed in the media, on campuses, and on the streets of America. It is not dramatic, and has not yet affected Washington politics, but it is evolving. Today on This Week In Palestine, we take a deep dive into the dynamic with Tariq Kenney-Shawa who has studied the dynamic of this shift and discusses it on the Occupied Podcast recorded September 22nd, 2021 with Lara Friedman and Khaled Elgindy.
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Palestinian narrative, Tariq Kenney-Shawa, Lara Friedman, Khaled Elgindy,...
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This week we feature Zaha Hassan, who outlines how the Biden administration can break the Middle East peace impasse by adopting a rights-based -- rather than an Israel and its lobby based -- approach as the center of its strategy. Why has the current one-sided approach favoring Israel produced only serial failures? How would a rights-based approach transcend violence, dispossession, discrimination and occupation? What are the policy options? Why is a rights-based approach a far better look for...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Zaha Hassan, rights-based, favoring Israel, serial failures, policy...
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We have been covering the ongoing conversation concerning the Intersectionality of the movement for Black rights in the US, and the Liberation of Palestine from its occupation by Israel. We return to this theme this week with Daphne Muse who delivered this presentation as the 2020 Edward Said Memorial Lecture to the Jerusalem Fund and Palestine Center. Syed Arikat joins her in conversation. Daphne Muse is a writer, activist, educator, editor, social commentator and cultural broker. In February...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Daphne Muse, Syed Arikat, Edward Said, Liberation of Palestine, Black...
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Aug 22, 2021
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What is happening inside Israel’s right wing government, and what role does violence and extremism play particularly in its domestic and regional policies and their execution in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza? Lara Friedman, President of the Foundation for Middle East Peace discusses this with Middle East scholar Elizabeth Jacar.
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Lara Friedman, Elizabeth Jacar, Israel's right wing government, violence,...
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Aug 15, 2021
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This week Professor Hatem Bazian casts a critical eye on some of the myths that direct the Zionist narrative. He underscores how the racism and inhumanity of the colonialist project and the inconsistencies of the Biblical narrative clash with archeological and historical reality that reveals truths that explode Zionist myths. Bazian is a professor of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. In addition, he is co-founder and assistant ...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Palestine, Hatem Bazian, Zionist myths, Zionist narrative, colonialist...
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Aug 8, 2021
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Today we discuss the current state of Palestinian leadership and how Palestinians are contending with multiple layers of authoritarian rule (Israel, the Palestinian Authority, and Hamas). What are the challenges to Palestinian liberation? What roles - positive and negative - do the Palestinian Authority and Hamas play? What role does Palestinian civil society play in mobilizing against Israel and the PA? What can Palestinian resistance to Israel look like? What is behind Hamas’s rise in...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Liberation, Leadership, authoritarian rule, Lara Friedman, Foundation for...
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Aug 1, 2021
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This week we bring back one of the most articulate, and passionate Palestinian advocates who gives expression to the Palestinian narrative every day. Ali Abunimah, journalist and co-founder of the Electronic Intifada, is interviewed on a podcast colorfully named "Left Bitches who are right." It's hosted by Anissa Naouai, Ryan Wentz, Amanda Getty, Erica Marable and Gregory Haddock. Palestine is rising, resisting and rejecting Israel's racist colonial occupation...
Topics: Sherif Fam, John Roberts, Ali Abunimah, Electronic Intifada, Left Bitches, Anissa Naouai, Ryan...
